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Linking Words for Essays: How to Link Those Paragraphs

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Linking words help you to connect ideas and sentences when you speak or write English.

Linking Words and Phrases in English

Using linking or transition words that signpost your arguments can help to clarify your views and show the reader what to expect from certain paragraphs or sentences. These words give structure to the whole, helping you to organize your ideas and assist the reader in understanding them.

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Below is a handy list of words that are both useful and appropriate to academic language:

Linking Words for Essays

Linking Words for Essays

Linking Words for Essays

Linking Words for Essays

Linking Words for Essays

Linking Words for Essays

Linking Words for Essays

Linking Words for Essays

Linking Words for Essays

Linking Words for Essays

Other linking words to give an example or an illustration:

  • In  this  case,
  • In  another  case
  • Take  the  case  of
  • To  illustrate
  • As  an
  • Illustration
  • To  take  another  example
  • Namely
  • That  is
  • As  shown  by
  • As  illustrated  by
  • As expressed by

Linking Words for Essays

Linking Words for Essays

Linking Words for Essays

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prosper

Tuesday 28th of March 2023

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Sunday 29th of May 2022

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urmom

Sunday 29th of May 2022

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Pooja

Sunday 27th of December 2020

Superb work sir/madam

Segun Olapeju

Tuesday 22nd of September 2020

Ok